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The citation feature provides justification for arguments and demonstrates the novelty of one’s position in research writing. It shows how a piece of research arises out of, and is grounded in the current state of disciplinary ...

This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English (KenE) monophthongs and uses those characteristics to identify the phonemes and also to determine the internal Element Theory ...

Among linguists and anthropologists the question “is it possible to be Xmen without Xish?”1 is one that triggers lively debates. The terms Xmen and Xish stand for the members of a given community and the language that is ...

The study aimed at evaluating the social motivations behind the use of swearwords in the language of miraa
traders. The study was carried out in Kῖrῖtirῖ open-air miraa (khat) market in Mbeere South sub-county within ...

This paper seeks to describe some linguistic features of six dialects of the so-called Meru
group. All the six are found on a geographical continuum and they are mutually intelligible.
The argument in this paper is that ...

Culture has a heavy overlay on the perceptions and the subsequent handling of persons with language and speech disorders. This article reviews the cultural perspectives of language and speech disorders as portrayed by ...

There are two medical schools training doctors in Kenya: the Moi University established in 1984 and the University of Nairobi established in 1967. The University of Nairobi has so far produced the majority of Kenyan doctors. ...

The youth face a Myriad of health related challenges. Progressive nations rely on healthy youths who can engage in national building. However, literature has shown that youths who are the most productive people in society ...

Kenya is an African country where English and Swahili serve as the official languages. In addition, there are over forty two indigenous languages spoken in the country, usually as ‘home’ languages. Some of these ethnic ...

triedfor three years to find the verb 'have'in Ewe ... " Those were the words uttered with a m'
of frustration and delight of a missionary on furlough several years ago. (Welmers 1972. 208)
This quotation echoes the ...

Computer-basedcorpora as sources of language material for description is a relatively new concept
inlinguistics in Kenya, if not in Africa generally. The collection of relevant and / or appropriate text
samples:spoken, ...

The question, "whose English in Kenyan schools?" would generally elicit two polarised responses.
Language planners and some educators would not hesitate to give the British Standard as the variety
taught in our schools ...

For a long time Sheng was perceived as an argot language, a variety restricted in its domains of use. It was seen as a language of the urban youth in Nairobi. However, there has been an emerging trend whereby big corporate ...

Quantitative data collected during a recent research trip have shed light on
the social and linguistic factors that affect language choice and use in the complex
multilingual setting of Nairobi City. The first section ...

The citation feature provides justification for arguments and demonstrates the novelty of one’s position in research writing. It shows how a piece of research arises out of, and is grounded in the current state of disciplinary ...

This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English (KenE) monophthongs and uses those characteristics to identify the phonemes and also to determine the internal Element Theory ...

Among linguists and anthropologists the question “is it possible to be Xmen without Xish?”1 is one that triggers lively debates. The terms Xmen and Xish stand for the members of a given community and the language that is ...

The study aimed at evaluating the social motivations behind the use of swearwords in the language of miraa
traders. The study was carried out in Kῖrῖtirῖ open-air miraa (khat) market in Mbeere South sub-county within ...

This paper seeks to describe some linguistic features of six dialects of the so-called Meru
group. All the six are found on a geographical continuum and they are mutually intelligible.
The argument in this paper is that ...

Culture has a heavy overlay on the perceptions and the subsequent handling of persons with language and speech disorders. This article reviews the cultural perspectives of language and speech disorders as portrayed by ...

There are two medical schools training doctors in Kenya: the Moi University established in 1984 and the University of Nairobi established in 1967. The University of Nairobi has so far produced the majority of Kenyan doctors. ...

The youth face a Myriad of health related challenges. Progressive nations rely on healthy youths who can engage in national building. However, literature has shown that youths who are the most productive people in society ...

Kenya is an African country where English and Swahili serve as the official languages. In addition, there are over forty two indigenous languages spoken in the country, usually as ‘home’ languages. Some of these ethnic ...

triedfor three years to find the verb 'have'in Ewe ... " Those were the words uttered with a m'
of frustration and delight of a missionary on furlough several years ago. (Welmers 1972. 208)
This quotation echoes the ...

Computer-basedcorpora as sources of language material for description is a relatively new concept
inlinguistics in Kenya, if not in Africa generally. The collection of relevant and / or appropriate text
samples:spoken, ...

The question, "whose English in Kenyan schools?" would generally elicit two polarised responses.
Language planners and some educators would not hesitate to give the British Standard as the variety
taught in our schools ...

For a long time Sheng was perceived as an argot language, a variety restricted in its domains of use. It was seen as a language of the urban youth in Nairobi. However, there has been an emerging trend whereby big corporate ...

Quantitative data collected during a recent research trip have shed light on
the social and linguistic factors that affect language choice and use in the complex
multilingual setting of Nairobi City. The first section ...

The article seeks to address the plural forms of class 11/10 nouns in Meru dialects. These are Bantu dialects spoken in the eastern province of Kenya. The dialects build the plural forms in this class in various ways. ...

This article addresses the notion of linguistic meaning with reference to Kiswahili. It focuses particular attention on meaning typology, with the assumption that a discussion of meaning types can enhance the understanding ...